Maine Learning Results: Health Education and Physical Education
A6 Basic Health Concepts
Grades: 6-8
Students will explain essential health concepts related to family life; nutrition; personal health; safety and injury prevention; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
• The use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs can affect their personal health.
• There are key injury preventatives related to kitchen safety.
• Dietary needs and caloric intake differ from person to person.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
• How do tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs affect the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of health?
• How can injuries in the kitchen be prevented?
• Why is it important to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and how does it affect personal health?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to do:(S)
•Vocabulary: carbohydrate, protein, lipid, macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, micronutrients, starch, fiber, calorie, BMI, BMR, tobacco, alcohol, and drug abuse
• Key factual information: the aspects of health (physical, mental, emotional, social, etc.), accident/injury prevention statistics
• Critical details: Nutrition labels, Food Pyramid
• Explain essential health concepts.
• Evaluate dietary needs.
• Apply safety and injury prevention to the kitchen.
• Contrast drug use, abuse, and addiction.
• Be open to personal health changes.
• Recognize positive aspects of family life.
Stage 1 Identify Desired Results
A6 Basic Health Concepts
Grades: 6-8
Students will explain essential health concepts related to family life; nutrition; personal health; safety and injury prevention; and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use prevention.
What understandings are desired?
• There are key injury preventatives related to kitchen safety.
• Dietary needs and caloric intake differ from person to person.
What essential questions will be considered?
• How can injuries in the kitchen be prevented?
• Why is it important to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and how does it affect personal health?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
• Key factual information: the aspects of health (physical, mental, emotional, social, etc.), accident/injury prevention statistics
• Critical details: Nutrition labels, Food Pyramid
• Evaluate dietary needs.
• Apply safety and injury prevention to the kitchen.
• Contrast drug use, abuse, and addiction.
• Be open to personal health changes.
• Recognize positive aspects of family life.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and JayMcTighe